This map, 1686 Frenchtown, R.I., shows how the Huguenots had arranged
their settlement and how each family had its equal share of land. The
exact location of the French Huguenot settlement of 1686 in Narragansett
Country, Rhode Island has never been exactly determined. As closely as
can be explained it was bound on the north by Frenchtown Road, on the
south near the Exeter town line, on the east by what is now South County
Trail.

The price of the land was four shillings an acre in cash or twenty-five
pounds for every one hundred acres, payable in three years with interest
at 6% thereafter. Each family was to have one hundred acres of upland
if desired and a portion of meadow on the river. Execue: Carre,
the minister, was to have one hundred and fifty acres gratis: one hundred
acres were assigned as glebe land and fifty acres to support a Protestant
schoolmaster. A town site was laid out for a compact settlement
and forty-five families settled thereon, building a meeting house, a mill
for grinding grain, and twenty-five houses. Orchards of apples,
grapes and honey locusts were planted, and mulberry preserves were planned
for the production of silk. (Information taken from ‘The Star
of La Rochelle’ being the true story of the life of Ester Leroy,
wife of Gabriel Bernon 1652-1710 by Elizabeth Nicholson White, printed
in Providence 1930. )

Piere Tourjee married Mary Smith in North Kingstown, R.I.
Where were they for those missing 35years? Was Peter the Jr. referred
to on he settlement map? Was he farming on Prudence Island, RI as is speculated?.

If you have any information to contribute to my on going quest,
or if you are a descendant and have a connection to this family please
write.

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that are in progress : BILLINGTON, BRENNAN, CAFFERTY, CLARK, CAPRON,.DOLLIVER,
GILHEENY, HATHAWAY, HULING. MAURO,.SMITH,.TOPPI. all from Rhode
Island.